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Report of a Case Complicated by Brain Tumor

EDWARD M. ASHENHURST, M.D.

AMA Arch Neurol. 1960;2(5):552-555.

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The combination of defects in cartilagebone formation, dyschondroplasia (Ollier's disease), with subcutaneous vascular hamartomata, was first described in 1881.¹ This association of lesions is known as Maffucci's syndrome. Since then further examples have appeared sporadically in the literature. The subject was well reviewed by Carleton (1942) and her co-workers,² the total number of recorded cases at that time being 20. Bean³ and Aimes and Franchebois⁴ have added more recent contributions, and the total number of established cases, including the present one, is 36.

The present report concerns a patient with Maffucci's syndrome and is the second case in which the course has been complicated by the occurrence of a primary intracranial tumor.

Report of Case

A 60-year-old Hungarian-born married woman was first admitted to the hospital on April 26, 1958, with complaints of headache and vomiting, associated with attacks of unconsciousness. Headaches had been present . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Saskatoon, Sask., Canada

From the Second (Cornell) Medical and Neurological Services, Bellevue Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec. 9, 1959.

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